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Explores the difference between the African American and the European Bildungsroman . Focus is on issues of subjectivity, gender, and history in maturation stories by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Charles Johnson, and Shelly Anne Williams. A comparative discussion of the Africa-American tradition of self-representation, the European tradition of the Bildungsroman , and postmodernist notions of subjectivity elucidates fundamental traits of the African American narrative of Bildung . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.